Source code for optunity.util

#! /usr/bin/env python

# Author: Marc Claesen
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import collections


def DocumentedNamedTuple(docstring, *ntargs):
    """Factory function to construct collections.namedtuple with
    a docstring. Useful to attach meta-information to data structures.

    Inspired by http://stackoverflow.com/a/1606478"""
    nt = collections.namedtuple(*ntargs)

    class NT(nt):
        __doc__ = docstring
    return NT